Australasian & Pacific History

Governance and Public Space in the Australian City is a rich and evocative examination of the production and use of public spaces in Australian cit...

Britain formally colonised Van Diemen's Land in the early years of the nineteenth century. Small convict stations grew into towns. Pastoralists mov...

On April 25th 1915, during the First World War, the famous Anzacs landed ashore at Gallipoli. At the exact same moment, leading figures of Armenian...

As part of the controversial Earl Grey Scheme, this is the true story of the Kerry girls who were shipped to Australia from the four Kerry Workhous...

This book is a study of the Lapita Cultural Complex, a region spanning both Melanesia and Western Polynesia. The Lapita culture has been interprete...

Although an ally of Nazi Germany during World War II, Japan adamantly refused to accede to German demands to deal harshly with the some 40,000 Jews...

In the early twentieth century, Chinese intellectuals came to realize that Westerners surpassed them not only in knowledge of the world, but also i...

The history of East Asia can be most productively studied through a transnational, translingual, and transcultural approach to the region. In The...

Australia and the Rhodesian Problem 19611972 draws on both published and unpublished records from the National Archives of Australia to document Au...

Bringing to light the largely overlooked female participation in domestic and international art worlds, this book offers the first comprehensive s...

How did scientists, artists, designers, manufacturers and amateur enthusiasts experience and value the sea and its products? Taking a fresh approac...

The Iran National Front and the Struggle for Democracy: 1949Present explores the activities of the Iran National Front (INF). The INF is a coalitio...

The movement of goods and passengers between port cities not only stimulates growth in coastal trading networks and centers but also inevitably cha...

Modern China in Flux heralds a transformative epoch in historical research, spotlighting the innovative methodology of network analysis. As the dig...

This book is about how Australians have responded to stories about suffering and injustice in Australia, presented in a range of public media, incl...

Bonzer. Arvo. Tucker. Sickie. Pash. Illywhacker.There are plenty of words to choose from to tell the story of Australia from iconic Australianisms...

1940. Wartime Australia. Key members of Menzies' government die in a fiery plane crash. What went wrong and what happened next? In August 1940 Aust...

This study provides a cultural history of Australia and nuclear power. The author examines the countrys role as a nuclear test site, the aspiration...

In Sydney, acclaimed playwright and writer Louis Nowra author of Kings Cross and Woolloomooloo expands his gaze to explore the energy, beauty, vu...

**Winner, 2023 Ernest Scott Prize ****Winner, 2023 NSW Premier's History Awards, Australian History Prize****Shortlisted, 2023 Prime Minister's Lit...

In The Mana of Translation: Translational Flow from the Baibala to the Mauna, Bryan Kamaoli Kuwada makes visible the often unseen workings of trans...

In The Mana of Translation: Translational Flow from the Baibala to the Mauna, Bryan Kamaoli Kuwada makes visible the often unseen workings of trans...